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Guest essay by Eric Worrall The United Nations has just warned the world that last year sea level rise hit an unprecedented 3.7mm.
Climate change is making the seas rise faster than ever, UN warns 28 March 2019 By Adam Vaughan Sea levels across the world are rising faster than ever, the United Nations has warned, meaning we urgently need to increase action on climate change.
In a report released on Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a UN agency, painted a dire picture of all the key indicators of global warming.
The last four years were the warmest on record, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at record levels and rising, and a global average sea level rise of 3.7 millimetres in 2018 outstripped the average annual increase over the past three decades.
The findings in the group’s annual State of the Climate report will bolster efforts by António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, to make governments commit to more ambitious carbon cuts at a landmark summit in September.
“There is no longer any time for delay,” wrote Guterres in a foreword to the report.
Even if the UN estimate is correct, starting from 3.15mm per year this would result in a sea level rise of around: d = vt + 0.5at2 d = 3.15 x 80 + 0.5 x 0.1 x 802 d = 572mm or just under 2ft of sea level rise by the end of the century.
I hope you all have your coastal evacuation plans ready.
How will our grandchildren or great grandchildren cope with economic burden of constructing an extra foot or two of sea wall?
Is it climate change or global warming?

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events Hello and welcome to 2019, a year that will put the resilience of the Paris Agreement to the test.
We have a rulebook for the pact, but are leaders ready to inject more ambition?
Natalie Sauer examined the prospects for increased national action.
Chile, the host of this year’s UN climate summit, is burning and the government has warned hot, dry weather could worsen wildfires.
Jim Kim is leaving the World Bank for the private sector, in a move that came earlier than most people expected.
Will the US administration name a successor who takes green finance seriously?
And seven EU member states are late with their climate and energy homework, reports Euractiv.
Down to the last hours of Katowice, it was Brazil vs the world.
Brazil has a more hardline government and negotiators have less flexibility to trade off compromises here against other aspects of talks.
Speaking of Brazil and its government, what will come of all the threats and bluster the Bolsonaro administration made before it took power?

Last month’s UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland set (most of) the technical rules of the Paris Agreement, but showed little sign of renewed ambition.
He called on governments to ramp up their commitments – known in UN-speak as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) – to the Paris pact.
Nobody wants to go it alone, says David Waskow, senior climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute: “Countries like the EU, China and India, as well as others, will be looking to see how to join hands to take this leap together.” Bolsonaro, Paris and 1.5C: a guide to our top stories of 2018 China, the number one source of greenhouse gases, is non-committal on the world stage, but is mulling increased ambition in domestic policy circles.
President Donald Trump has vowed to quit the Paris deal, making any updated US contribution before 2020 vanishingly unlikely.
We will not accept just any deal at #COP24.
pic.twitter.com/AqDPeATNBt — Miguel Arias Cañete (@MAC_europa) December 14, 2018 One of the key actors behind that statement, EU climate chief Miguel Arias Cañete, is also pushing for bolder climate action at home.
“The new targets would de facto mean that the European Union would be in a position to raise the level of ambition of the NDC and increase its emissions reduction target from the current 40% to slightly over 45% by 2030,” Arias Cañete said in June.
Jahan Chowdury, director of NDC Partnership, told CHN that Vietnam, the Philippines, Jamaica, Honduras, the Seychelles, Marshall Islands, Rwanda, Guatemala, Mongolia and São Tomé and Príncipe have all expressed an intention to up their NDCs by 2020.
Another 15 countries are in conversation with NDC Partnership, Chowdury said.
However many of his policies threaten the world’s biggest rainforest and even before he was sworn in the country backed out of hosting 2019’s UN climate summit.

UN secretary general: ‘Get on board the climate train or get left behind’.
As the US teeters on the brink of leaving the global climate process, António Guterres has implored all countries to stay the course or go alone into a “grey future” UN secretary general António Guterres has warned that nations that choose not to rapidly shift away from fossil fuels will be “left behind”.
Without referring directly to Trump, Guterres’ speech at the New York University Stern School of Business on Tuesday was tailored to neuter the arguments for leaving the accord laid out by some of the president’s more conservative advisors.
This weekend, at a G7 leaders summit in Italy, Trump refused to sign up to a statement voicing support for the climate deal.
Instead, the meeting issued a bifurcated communiqué on climate action that allowed the US to stand apart from the other six nations while it was “reviewing its policies”.
Immediately after the meeting, Trump said on Twitter that he would announce this week his “final decision” on whether to stay in the deal or withdraw the US this week.
Guterres listed a range of crises facing the global community: population growth, rapid and chaotic urbanisation, food insecurity, water scarcity and massive migration.
He said he would be lobbying industry, business and governments to implement carbon pricing and stimulate flows of climate finance to the poor world.
In order to motivate leaders from around the world to advance a more positive agenda, the secretary general announced he would convene a climate summit in 2019.
Other nations, including China and India have reiterated their commitment to the deal in recent weeks.

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